Bumble is removing all the photos of people with guns in its dating app

Dating app Bumble will start banning photos with guns or knives in them.

The ban does not apply to users in the military and law enforcement who are in uniform.

Users will have the option of appealing to get individual photos reinstated.
[ Business Insider ]

WeWork is acquiring digital marketing startup Conductor

WeWork announced this morning it is acquiring a digital marketing and advertising company, Conductor, for an undisclosed amount. The co-working tech giant says it’s acquiring the company to add to the services it offers beyond office space, although it will run Conductor as a separate line of business available to customers whether they’re WeWork members or not. [ Recode ]

UiPath confirms $153M at $1.1B valuation from Accel, CapitalG and KP for its “software robots”

Last week, we reported that UiPath, a startup out of Romania building AI-based services for enterprises in the area of robotic process automation (RPA) — helping
businesses automate mundane tasks in back-office IT systems — was about to close a big round, upwards of $120 million at a $1 billion-plus valuation. [ Tech Crunch ]

HQ Trivia raises $15 million to become the next TV

HQ, the live trivia game-show app, tells Axios that it has raised $15 million in new VC funding at a $100 million post-money valuation. Founders Fund led, and was joined by return backer Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Why it matters: Because, on Sunday night, HQ had more than 2.1 million people staring at their phone screens for a solid 15 minutes. It's millennial Jeopardy, but with interactive engagement — and a bet by investors that appointment viewing can be recreated
in a mobile world. [ Axios ]

Sometimes these things have a way of working out: Drew Houston on turning his own disorganization into a $10bn company

Now that Dropbox is finally poised to go public there will be two storylines to watch.

The first will be about this era of runaway valuations. Taken together, the decacorns are worth more than $200 billion. These bets are only
accelerating. In a single quarter last year, private market investors pumped a record $10 billion into “startups”... and 80% of that went to just four companies. [ Pando ]

Paris-based VC firm Ventech is raising a new fund

Ventech has been around for 20 years, which is the equivalent of 80 years in tech time. And the VC firm is still going strong as it just announced the initial closing of a new fund. The firm has raised $170 million (€140 million) and wants to reach the $250 million hard cap (€200 million) within a few months.

And Ventech isn’t going to reinvent the wheel. The firm plans to do more of the same with seed and Series A investments in Europe. As the name
suggest, Ventech is looking for techinvestments in general. You can expect investments that range between €0.5 million and €15 million ($18.6 million). [ TechCrunch ]

This startup just got $114 million to help people get ‘a better deal from the justice system’ by finding investors for their lawsuits

Mighty, a New York City-based startup that focuses on litigation finance,just got $9 million in equity funding plus $105 million more for its first investment fund.

In litigation finance, investors fund lawsuits and get a cut of any settlement or cash award.

The industry gained notoriety after Peter Thiel funded Hulk Hogan's successful lawsuit against Gawker. However, Mighty sees litigation finance more as a tool to help ordinary people gain access to the justice system.

Foreign workers can now get health insurance abroad with this new startup

As work in the digital domain becomes increasingly portable, a slew of (mostly young) professionals have taken to the skies and seas to travel the globe while clocking in and collecting their directly deposited paychecks.

These digital nomads now roaming the world may look like they’ve got it made — mid-century modern decorated workspaces dotting the world’s most desirable locales; gourmet coffee, avocado toasts (and even Brooklyn
barbecue) abound in every corner; artisanal whiskies and craft beer to tipple on… but behind all this rockin revelry lies a dark secret… It’s time-consuming and relatively expensive for these comparatively highly paid worldly wanderers to get health insurance. [ TechCrunch ]

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